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...news that the British Were Coming was a reason for hope, celebration and action." On the eve of independence, as many as 20% of the rebellious colonies' 2.5 million people were African American. That figure rose to 40% in Virginia, the home of Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who were slave owners all. Then again, so was Lord Dunmore, the last Royal Governor of Virginia and the man who first made the offer of freedom for military service. Schama's book, nuanced, fair-minded and beautifully written, does not pretend that the British, who oversaw their own brutal slave...
...meet in person. However, this is in no way “You’ve Got Mail” with a pedophiliac twist. This is one superb film by all accounts that you won’t be able to shake off. After Haley (Ellen Page) and Jeff (Patrick Wilson, “The Phantom of the Opera”) meet in public, they quickly decide to go back to his apartment, but it is unclear who wants to go more, the man or the girl. At his apartment, they begin to drink hard liquor, flirt...
...enshrined in the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI). The grouping of nine nations (Eritrea is still only an observer) was founded in 1999 with the aim of coordinating development along the Nile, boosting local economies, and helping to feed the millions of people in the region who regularly face starvation. Patrick Kahangire, executive director of the NBI secretariat and former head of Uganda's national water department, says that Nile development should help all the countries that share the river. There are still many hurdles. Egypt, for instance, is meeting resistance over its demands that it be given an effective veto...
...planning went into this,” says Monica M. Renta ’08, “I mean—the Swedish fish.” “I thought it was awesome. I mean, what a random thing to do,” says Patrick G. Mauro ’07. “We need more things like this.” Many of the students who packed the pool and bleachers agreed with him. But not everyone enjoyed being partially submerged in chlorinated fluid. Rather than experiencing a chilly sense of dread, Vanessa...
Other viral videos show genuine comic smarts. One night in January a couple of Emerson College students named Jonathan Ade and Patrick DiNicola had a brain wave and stayed up late re-editing footage from the Back to the Future trilogy to create Brokeback to the Future, the time-traveling love story of young Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Viral gold. "A friend of ours posted it onto YouTube," says Ade, 21. "After that point it got away from us." Brokeback to the Future has been viewed more than 3 million times...